Unframing Archives

From the introduction: “With the increasing proliferation of personal records, we are placed at the center of an ethical, aesthetic and political discussion about an archive of intimacy that reflects the panoptic era in which we live. While the archive is discussed in its materiality and proposals, questions also arise about the immateriality in the construction of memory and identity. Unframing Archives continues the discussion about the boundaries of art frameworks, as a fundamental guide to a multiple and open archive to which artists have been making a radical contribution.”

CONTENTS

Between Formalism and Realism: the case of cinema
Filipe Martins

Post-Digital Aesthetics: an art of imperfection, disturbances and disintegration
Andrzej Marze

Marginalia
Miguel Leal

Poetry and Bureaucracy
Catarina Mourão

Making (Micro) History with Domestic Archives
Éfren Cuevas

Meanwhile Somewhere: A conversation with Péter Forgács
Deirdre Boyle

The Memory of Loss: Péter Forgács’s Saga of Family Life and Social Hell
Bill Nichols in Dialogue with Péter Forgács

Ecstasy, Charisma and Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man
Bill Nichols

Materials Laboratory
Fernanda Fragateiro